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IES 2007-08 Grant & Fellowship Recipients

Entering Graduates
Predissertation & Dissertation Fellowships
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
Center for British Studies Fellowships
Portuguese Studies Program Fellowships

IES Entering Graduates Fellowship
IES offers fellowships each year for outstanding UC entering graduate students who demonstrate an interest in modern European studies. The nominating department provides tuition and fee waivers for students who are selected. These fellowships have attracted the finest students from across the country. The 2007-08 recipients of the Entering Graduates Fellowships are listed below.

Seda Aydin, UCLA, Sociology
Matthew Balts, UCLA, Sociology
Gregory Bonetti, UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature
Jonathan Fine, UC Irvine, German
Vanessa Lincoln, UC Berkeley, History
Ramsey McGlazer, UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature
Annika Orich, UC Berkeley, German

IES Predissertation & Dissertation Fellowships
IES offers predissertation and dissertation support to UC graduate students who have advanced to candidacy and are prepared to write on a European topic. Recipients of these funds may apply them to travel expenses related to a preliminary or final field and archival research trip in Europe. The 2007-08 recipients of the Predissertation and Dissertation Fellowships are listed below.

Thomas Becker, UC Berkeley, Economics
The Determinants of the Price of Carbon Derivatives

Jakub Benes, UC Davis, History
Radicalized Society and Nationalized Democracy: The Failure of Habsburg Electoral Reforms

Lino Camprubi, UCLA, History
Building a European Spain: Engineering Institutions in Early Francoist Spain

Mariana Carrera, UC Berkeley, Economics
School Choice Reforms in France: Productivity and Distributional Effects

Sarah A. Cramsey, UC Berkeley, History
From Jerusalem to Prague, with Love: Czechoslovakian Jews and Mandate Palestine

Graham Hill, UC Berkeley, Sociology
The Politics and Bureaucracy of Social Categories in French Immigration Policy

Catherine Karnitis, UC Berkeley, History
Mementos of Empire: The Burning of the Tuileries

Kurt MacMillan, UC Irvine, History
Hormonal Bodies: Gregorio Maranon and the Endocrinology of Gender and Sexuality in Modern European Science

Kathryn Marsden, UC Irvine, History
Dechristianization and Married Nuns

Julia McAnallen, UC Berkeley, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Modal Verbs in Modern Czech: Usage and Development
Bruno Jacob Mikanowski, UC Berkeley, History
Biopolitics on the Eastern Front: Molecular Anthropology in WWI Macedonia

Adeline Mueller, UC Berkeley, Music
Rearing a Nation: The German Family in Opera, 1770-1809

Hannah Saunders Murphy, UC Berkeley, History
The Experience of Death, Suffering and Trauma in the Thirty Years’ War

Zhivka Valiavicharska, UC Berkeley, Rhetoric
Culture as a Technology of Neoliberal Governance: A Look at Post-Socialist Southeastern Europe

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
The FLAS program is a highly competitive fellowship funded by the US Department of Education that aims to ensure continued national competence in modern foreign languages and International & Area Studies. The 2007-08 and Summer 2008 recipients of the FLAS fellowship are listed below.

Academic Year 2007-08
Philip Wolgin, YIddish
Paul Baginski, French
Benjamin Urwand, German
Jonathan Bean, Danish

Summer 2008
Benjamin Urward, German
Elizabeth Carter, French

Center for British Studies Dissertation Fellowships
Grahame Foreman, History
The Manchester School and the British Anthropology of Modernity
Ruth Baldwin, English
Imagining Criminality: The Figure of the Criminal in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Center for British Studies Predissertation Fellowships
Mona Damluji, Architecture
Baghdad on the Big Screen: Iraq’s Urban History through the Lens of British Newsreels from the 1920s to the 1950s
Radhika Natarajan, History
Teddy Girls at Work and Play, 1950-1958

Center for British Studies Anglo-California Foundation Scholarship
Joseph Brien O’Connell, UC Santa Cruz, History
English Purchasing Power: Agrarian Change and the Rise of Consumerism in Rural England, 1660-1710

Susanne Cowan, History
Planning to the People — Reconstructing Community in Britain, 1939-1951

Center for British Studies Kirk Underhill Prizes
Best Graduate Paper
John Lurz
Pro-Visional Reading: Seeing Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian

Best Undergraduate Paper
Jesse King
Avoiding a British Harlem: British Race Relations Discourse 1948-1968

Portuguese Studies Program Fellowships
Water Workshop-Related Grants
Noelle Cole, Looking Back at the Nitrates Directive
Lindsey Fransen, Restoring Water Quality in Coastal Creeks Katie Jagt, Formation of Coastal Lagoons
Kristien Podolak, Urban River Rehabilitation
Nadine Soubotin, Experiencing Water in Urban Waterfronts
Jane Wardani, Perceptions of Urban Waterways Travel Grants
Twenty-seven summer program travel grants awarded for the Portuguese Language and Culture Summer Course in Porto and Lisbon

James Beard, Religious Institutions and Immigrants, Porto
Alex Westhoff, Heritage Tourism Development in the Tagus River Estuary

Portuguese Studies Program Pinto/Fialon Fund Fellowships
Undergraduate Student Fellowships
Twenty-eight awarded

Graduate Student Fellowships
Felicia Dawn Simas Angeja Voator
Idalina Baptista
Tiago Luis Lavandeira Castela
Diogo Gaspar Teixeira De Oliveira
Constança Esteves-Sorenson
Pedro Miguel Gardete
Norberto Abreu Varejão Guimarães
Naomi Leite-Goldberg
Felicia Mello
Gisela Maria Sobral Pinheiro Rua
Haley Waterson

IES 2006-07 Grant & Fellowship Recipients

Entering Graduates
Predissertation Fellowships
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)

Entering Graduates

IES offers fellowships each year for outstanding UC entering graduate students who demonstrate an interest in modern European studies. The nominating department provides tuition and fee waivers for students who are selected. These fellowships have attracted the finest students from across the country and have provided incentive to both students and departments to focus on European studies. The 2006-07 recipients of the entering graduates fellowships are listed below:

Robin Ellis, UC Berkeley, German
Mark Huberty, UC Berkeley, Political Science
Melissa Swain, UC Berkeley, Italian Studies
Kurt Buhanan, UC Irvine, German
Christopher Drue, UC San Diego, Sociology
David Fouser, UC Irvine, History
Stephen Lazer, UC Davis, History
Thomas Soehl, UCLA, Sociology

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Predissertation Fellowships

IES offers pre-dissertation support to UC graduate students who have advanced to candidacy and are ready to write a dissertation proposal on a European topic. Recipients of these funds may apply them to travel expenses related to a pre-dissertation trip to Europe. This preliminary trip allows students to lay groundwork for later field or archival research. The 2003-04 recipients of the predissertation fellowships are listed below:

Thomas Burnett, UC Berkeley, History, “Extinction in German Natural History, 1800-1830”

Katherine Hendy, UC Berkeley, Cultural Anthropology, “Illicit Communities: Ecstasy Use and the Creation of an Underground Subculture”

Nicole Hynson, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, “Evolutionary and Ecological Implications of Mycorrhizal Mediated Carbon Transfer in the Plant”

Asaf Kedar, UC Berkeley, Political Science, “Varieties of National Socialism in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914”

Jessica Lage, UC Berkeley, Geography, “Rural Land Transforma-tion in Spain”

Abigail Martin, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, “Examining the Contested Global Governance of Intellectual Property Rights and its Impact on Biodiversity Management through Predisseration Research of Key Policy Initiatives in Europe”

Andrej Milivojevic, UC Berkeley, History, “Decentralization and Redistribution in Socialist Yugoslavia”

Julian Saltman, UC Berkeley, History, “Imperial Legions: Minority Regiments in the Palestine Theater, 1917-1919”

Jeffrey Wolf, UC Berkeley, History, “A Reevaluation of Gustav Fechner and the Origins of Experimental Psychology”

Andreas Agocs, UC Davis, History, “Debates on Cultural Renewal in Postwar Germany, 1945-1956”

Amy Alexander, UC Irvine, Political Science, “Gender Differences in Legislative Attitudes and Behavior: Testing Theory and Evidence across Several Western Democracies”

Sarah Bakker, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology, “Dutch, Berber, and Maybe Muslim?: Religious Talk and Ethnic Identification among the Amazigh Berber in the Netherlands”

Henry Carnie, UC Irvine, History, “The Social Eye: The Mass-Observation Experiments of the 1930s as Visual Anthropology”

John Corbally, UC Davis, History, “Asians, Caribbeans, and Irish in Britian; Postwar Immigration from the Commonwealth”

Kevin Goldberg, UCLA, History, “German Viticulture and the Invention of Modern Taste, 1867-1918”

Jessie Hewitt, UC Davis, History, “Serving France: Domestic Servants, Class Identity, and the Transformation of the Intimate”

Ihan Anita Ip, UC Santa Barbara, Musicology, “Hamburg Opera and its Criticism: 1678-1738”

Jordan Kraemer, UC Irvine, Anthropology, “Translocally Imagined Communities: Digital Media and Youth in Contemporary Europe”

Ryan Zroka, UC San Diego, History, “The Will to Combat in German at the End of the First World War”

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Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)

The FLAS program is a highly competitive fellowship, funded by the US Department of Education, and aims to ensure continued national competence in modern foreign languages, and area and international studies. The 2006-07 recipients of the entering graduates fellowships are listed below: